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WOW. That's all I can say about the incredible "fight" going on between Trump 'liker's" and Trump "Haters". According to the haters, Trump was Treasonous yesterday at his meeting with Putin and he belives Putin more than his own Intelligence people, and yada yada yada.

Yesterday was an up and down roller coaster sort of day, that maybe one could call something of a pause day? Maybe. The DOW ended the day a bit pink, but the S&P and especially the NASDAQ would have nothing of it. They went very green.

Yesterday was certainly interesting on a lot of levels. It was of course electors day, and all eyes were on the votes. In quite the interesting twist, Trump had 2 electors that wouldn't vote for him. But Hillary actually lost 5! Ha. Actually it is much worse than that for her, as in Nevada a lot of Hillary electors were going to abandon her, but a judge actually forced them to hold the line.

This isn’t news. Everyone on the planet knows that Donald Trump has won the US election. So let’s talk about that for a bit, because.... There’s a lot to it.

I was one of so many, that stayed up for the entire show. Sarasota is a big Republican county. I was invited to the Republican "victory" party last night. As the results continued to come in, there was the ups and downs as the maps and the numbers wobbled around. The thing I found most interesting is that it wasn't full of middle aged white men. There were tens of dozens of 20 something women. There were tens of dozens of college age men. There were Asians and blacks and Hispanics. Talk about a melting pot...it was incredible. I didn’t hit the sack until 3, and those that know me, know I’m not a late night person. So please bear with me if I run off the rails a bit here. However, I’ll try and stay on track.

Well don't that beat all? On the Very Day that the New York Post writes an article about Hillary's MAID printing out State Department papers off Hillary's Illegal Server, Comey comes out and says "nah, we didn't find anything else in the 650K Weiner Emails". Interesting, to say the least. So I wake up this morning and the DOW futures are up 278 points. The S&P up 34.

I have no doubt that politics has been corrupt from the very earliest of days. None. But I think there’s a big difference between say taking a payoff from someone so that later on you give that person a favor, versus selling out your nation. I’m not saying that it’s right to take a payoff, but please folks, let’s deal in reality. They happen on virtually every level. Builder A gives Candidate B a 50K dollar donation to his campaign. B wins the election. Builder A gets approval for his condo project. It happens every day in every town USA.

I wrote the following article, “what happens to the market after the election” on Friday morning. It’s kind of funny because nothing major was happening and I felt this weekend would be a good time to start thinking of a post election strategy. Well then you all know what happened. At 1 pm, the FBI announced that they were looking into more Emails concerning Hillary. Then all hell broke loose.

I am an internet junkie. I admit it. While many spend their days chasing Pokeymon’s and playing all manner of video games, I spend a ton of my time Online. Why? I like to learn things. It’s really quite amazing how I’ll start with an article, and that branches off to another and then you hit a link in that one and by the time an hour has gone by...you might be reading something completely removed from your original topic. Happens to me all the time.

On Monday night the Superbowl of debates took place. I’ll be the first to say that Trump didn’t do as well as I’d have liked. It’s hard to look good against a 30 year criminal politician, that’s been trained to the core on how to deflect, duck, change topics, ridicule, etc. Her handlers had shined her up well. No coughing fits, no mysterious eye movement and she smiled a lot. Quite unlike the nasty glare she generally displays.

I’m not going to spend the entire commentary on the Presidential race, but I do have to ask the question...have you ever in your life seen the media so incredibly biased in your lifetime? I mean seriously folks, you can’t watch a single program without someone bringing up what they consider to be another Trump Gaffe. Even when Trump says something with no bad intent, it’s twisted to show him as a diabolical madman not capable to even run a kindergarten. I’ve never seen anything like it. If you thought there was the slightest inkling of honesty in reporting, or no bias...well, that’s shot to hell.